MARJAH, Helmand province, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan – Corporal Mark Hickok, a 23-year-old combat engineer from North Olmstead, Ohio, patrols through a field during a clearing mission April 9. Marines with Company B, 1st Tank Battalion, learned basic route clearance techniques from engineers like Hickok, who are deployed with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. John M. McCall)

This week, President Donald Trump, just like his predecessor Obama, promised to continue the utterly corrupt failure of a brutal occupation that is Afghanistan—despite running on a campaign to end it. For decades, the United States has been subsidizing—to the tune of billions of US tax dollars—failed projects, infrastructure, military, police, and yes, even terrorism. Yet Afghanistan is worse off today than they were before the government lied to Americans, claiming they were responsible for 9/11 instead of Saudi Arabia.

In a recent speech on the state of the Afghanistan quagmire, Congressman Thomas Massie (R) KY, exposed some hard truths that very few people in Washington are courageous enough to address. While most politicians cheered Trump’s insane decision to increase US presence in Afghanistan this week, Massie Blew the lid off of it.

For years, Massie has pointed out that the US has blown billions of dollars on failed projects alone. As of last year, the number of failed projects totaled over 100 billion.

To put this number in perspective, the entire amount of money the United States allocates to spend on rebuilding America’s crumbling highways every year is less than half of what it’s blown on failed projects alone in Afghanistan.

Massie noted that hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on a hydroelectric damn that the US thought the Taliban would destroy. However, they did not destroy it. Want to know why, Massie asked, “The get the electricity! We’re paying the light bill for the Taliban now. They get 30 percent of the electricity in exchange for not blowing it up, or shooting the operators who are running the damn.”

It is also no secret that Afghanistan opium production has increased by 3,500 percent, from 185 tons in 2001 to 6,400 in 2015, since the US-led invasion.

In the video below, Massie explains how he asked the inspector general why they don’t just spray herbicide on all the poppy fields to eradicate the plants. Massie was told they cannot eradicate the plants as the Taliban needs the money from opium production.

“By the way,” Massie explained, “The Taliban used to prevent people from growing poppy.”

If you think that Trump doesn’t know that a continued US occupation of Afghanistan will lead to a larger heroin epidemic, more innocent civilians killed, more troops needless dying, and more terrorism, think again. For years, Trump decried the war on Terror, pointing out the horrific nature of occupation.

The lunacy of continuing the occupation in Afghanistan, knowing the only ones who benefit from it are warlords, drug cartels, the CIA, terrorists, and the military industrial complex, is staggering.

Innocent people will die, your children’s children will be forever indebted to the Federal Reserve, and the global war machine—which knows no home country—will be empowered and expanded. For what?

“I had hoped the Afghanistan war would end soon, but now it’s inevitable that babies born during the war will be deploying to the war in 2019,” Massie said shortly after Trump’s speech Monday night.

Sadly, Massie is only accompanied by a handful of people in the house and senate in his stance. The overwhelming majority want more war because their lobbyists tell them that’s what will keep them in their seat.

As you listen to the speech below, remember, every single representative, senator, and adviser, all the way up to Trump, knows these facts, yet they choose to perpetuate them.

This is not only shameful—it’s criminal. Troops aren’t protecting your freedom in Afghanistan, they are being used to enrich a corrupt group of sadistic elites. Please share this article with your friends and family to show them the destructive, deadly, and criminal act of continuing a war in Afghanistan.

Trump dropped the largest convention weapon in history on some cave in Afganistan claiming it was because of ISIS..? What? Sure, they are all hiding out in some remove cave in afganistan.. we and Israel fund the mercenaries known as isis.. it’s all a proxy army to wage war in the ME and take down leaders who won’t cooperate.. like Assad.. I voted Trump but come on, he sends 50 cruise missiles to attack the Syrian AFB? they are fighting isis!!! He then kills how many in afganistan? He won’t work with the Light.. Putin is working with the Light.. the Plaidians (sic) Trump better wake the hell up fast.. the shift is coming.. the dark ones are defeated and he better choose the Light. The CIA killed JFK.. many at the top know this.. many know all about 911 and yet Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld.. all walk free.. while how many were killed? A fake unjust war in Iraq.. then enter Obama.. the elite’s NWO agent.. fake shootings.. disarm the nation.. hand over those weapons it will stop terrorism! lol of course sales went thru the roof.. still followers didn’t wake up.. so married to their ideology.. it’s all coming down soon, people have a choice, accept the Light.. or I rehab or GCS Victory of the Light! No fear..

CIA-BUSH-OBAMA proliferated the opiate problem since entering and surging the US military in Afghanistan…they now produce 90% of the worlds illegal opium!

HOWEVER, let’s not accuse Trump just yet that he’s implicit in CIA led drug trafficking-profiteering. For one, CIA hates trump and Clapper is seriously disdainful of trump’s new Afghanistan military strategy…that should tell you something.

Second, the US-Obama did not adopt a clear military strategy even when military leaders have been proposing their ideas for years. Even when military leaders became aware of US gov transgressions, they are shut down and told to color. You can read up on how much the military personnel are aware of US gov corruption on VeteransToday…especially, the article “blowing the lid” (per se) on the US opiate profiteering in Afghanistan. (See…http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/06/04/the-cia-continues-trafficking-drugs-from-afghanistan/) Yeah, we know.

Finally, Trump decided that we’re going to fight for a decisive victory and put and end to this “Forgotten War” by listening to the General/Commanders on ground instead of the CIA. I’m celebrating…especially, since the military intel is more honest and have known about this very questionable opiate trade in afghanistan, and because Clapper responded with such fear on CNN following Trump’s afghan announcement.

Massie is partially correct about US-CIA led drug trafficking…however, he is erroneous in his assumption that Trump is following the same CIA-led war in Afghanistan.